The Aggies are going to the NCAA Final Four for the first time in school history after a 58-46 victory over the top-seeded Lady Bears on Tuesday night in the Dallas Regional final.

Texas A&M (31-5) plays Stanford (33-2), another top-seeded team, on Sunday in the national semifinal.

Baylor (34-3) and All-American Brittney Griner, who played in the Final Four last year in the 6-foot-8 center’s freshman season, had won eight straight games against its Big 12 rival, including the previous three this season.

The Aggies blew a nine-point lead midway through the second half in Waco last month. They squandered a 12-0 start in the Big 12 championship game just more than three weeks ago.

This time, coach Gary Blair’s team lead from start-to-finish.

“Tonight was our night, we didn’t back into it,” Blair said. “We won the game fair and square.”

Sydney Colson added 12 points for Texas A&M, including some important scores after two free throws by Griner had gotten Baylor within 48-41 with 4½ minutes left.

Griner, coming off a 40-point game Sunday against Wisconsin-Green Bay after scoring 30 the game before that, had 20 points and nine rebounds. But she struggled all night shooting, making only 6 of 18 from the field, including a missed dunk attempt.

Connecticut 75, Duke 40: Maya Moore had 28 points, including the 3,000th of her career, to lead the top-seeded Huskies (36-1) back to the Final Four and two victories away from winning their third straight national championship, matching the school’s own run from 2002-04 and Tennessee’s from 1996-98.

Next up for coach Geno Auriemma’s latest juggernaut is Big East rival Notre Dame on Sunday in the national semifinals in Indianapolis.

Moore, who earned outstanding player of the regional honors, finished with 10 rebounds and seven steals, falling just short of achieving the school’s first triple-double since Laura Lishness had one in the Big East tournament title game in 1989.

“She does what she always does in big games, lifting us on her back,” said Auriemma of his star.

Now the Huskies (36-1) are back in the Final Four for the fourth straight season and 12th time in the last 17 years.

All-America team: Stanford senior Jeanette Pohlen was named All-American for the first time, joining Connecticut’s Moore, who made it a perfect 4 for 4. Also on the 2010-11 team are Baylor’s Griner, Texas A&M’s Danielle Adams and Ohio State’s Jantel Lavender. Moore and former Oklahoma star Courtney Paris are the only four-time recipients.

Pohlen, the Pac-10 Player of the Year, helped guide Stanford to the Final Four for the fourth consecutive year. She is the first Stanford player named to the first-team since Candice Wiggins in 2008.

“That is such an honor; I can’t put it into words,” Pohlen said. “I can only really thank my coaches and teammates for that. They have confidence in me.”

Stanford junior Nnemkadi Ogwumike was named to the second team for the second straight year, joining Oklahoma’s Danielle Robinson, Xavier’s Amber Harris, Gonzaga’s Courtney Vandersloot and Duke’s Jasmine Thomas.

Stanford senior Kayla Pedersen was honorable mention for the second year in a row.

Violent police encounters in California last year led to the deaths of 157 people and six officers, the state attorney general’s office said Thursday in a report that provides the first statewide tally on police use-of-force incidents.

At 6:03 p.m. Wednesday, police responded to reports of the robbery at the facility, 2301 Bancroft way, and learned that a man who snuck into the facility and began prowling through the building, taking cell phones and wallets from victims.

Investigators’ efforts to solve the case led to the arrests of Pablo Mendoza, 25, of Hayward, Brandon Follings, 26, of Oakland and Valeria Boden, 26, of Alameda, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.